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How to Get Rid of Cinavia Protection on a PS3 – Or at Least Bypass it!

A few updates ago, Sony included Cinavia protection on their Sony Playstation 3 and it’s been a love-hate relationship ever since. While you can find hundreds of posts about how to get rid of Cinavia protection from your Playstation 3 by patching it to an older update, or there’s some kind of sketchy software plugin I found that seemed to be a complete scam, I’ve only found one way to quickly get rid of it temporarily.

Just change the date on your PS3. That easy,

When you are watching a movie and the sound cuts out and you get the Cinavia warning, simply pause the movie (X) and back out to the main menu (O) and then slide over to settings > date and time and advance the year by one. Then go back to movies > media server > movie folder and play your movie. It will start back off where you paused it and the sound will be re-enabled until the next watermark. Do bear in mind this is only temporary and you will have to do this every time the Ps3 hits a Cinavia watermark, which seems to be about 4 or 5 times per movie. It’s annoying, but hey at least you can finish your movie!

39 thoughts on “How to Get Rid of Cinavia Protection on a PS3 – Or at Least Bypass it!”

Thanks. I was just setting it to one day and one hour in the future, which seems to do the trick. But one year forward seems simpler. It is still annoying, but hey, at least I can watch it on the big screen. Also, if other find this page, there is apparently a “PS3 Cinavia Fix” out there, but it is a scam. There is no software. All it is, is a bunch of guides telling you to use other software to try and get rid of it. Not worth it imo.

I wish I never updated my PS3 a few months ago. I never use it to play games anymore, so in retrospect, there was no point in the upgrade for me. Now my PS3 isn’t even a good media server. It’s totally useless.

This is such a b1tch move by MPAA and AASC industry moderators.
I guarantee if it were known on the update “You acknowledge that taking this update will completely remove the sole purpose of having a media server” nobody would have taken it.

What do the studios and Sony actually think “media servers” are for? Watching home movies?

I don’t want to d1ck around with a bunch of discs. I BUY my movies. I have tons of Blu-Ray and dvds.
It’s so much better to just store those for safe keeping, dump them all to a 4TB drive and host it on a pc in my house. Then I don’t have to go looking for my movie (which my kids misplace them constantly. Star Wars in the Back to the Future case, etc) Instead I just turn on my PS3 and choose what I want from a huge list of MY PAID COLLETION of movies…

What really pisses me off is that I am not doing anything illegal as long as I own it!!!! Read the shrink wrap licensing agreement on these things. Archival purposes. What pukes.

I hope that this makes what was probably not too big a deal for the industry giants into something that cripples them and their outrageous profits….

The legitimate user has been pushed way too far and we’ve always been subject to test beds and market flops that empty our pockets. WE keep this industry going and basically if I can’t enjoy what they sell me and I can’t trust “here’s a neat feature” to be an actual working feature, I will stop buying.

You guys are threatening your revenue pipeline with this stupidity. KEEP IT UP!

Wifi has nothing to do with it. I’m playing a movie put on my drive and my PS3 is not connected to any kind of internet and I’m still getting the message. Nothing has worked so far to take it off either.

I found it easy just to use a regular dvd player ,not a blu ray ,just a regular one ,then just put in the red white and yellow plugs in the back of your tv … simple and quick and you dont have to worry about your movie stopping all the time.

Ive got a problem , this time is not a mute by cinavia , but i cant watch the movie at all , last night i trued to watch Foxcatcher with my ps3 , it works fine for like 3-5 mins of thr movie , and then suddenly it turns blank and theres a message that said “Cannot playback on this device , playback is protected by cinavia for more information visit blablala” i tried change the date like i use to do when cinavia mute shit came out , but this time it wont work , any suggest , sorry for my bad english